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Print Edition StoriesWednesday, December 16, 2009
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N.H. unveils driver's license renewal system; Business groups fear EPA carbon emission regulations
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N.H. unveils driver’s license renewal system
New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and officials from the Department of Safety and Division of Motor Vehicles introduced the state’s new online driver’s license renewal system. With the new system, many New Hampshire residents will be able to renew their five-year licenses online once every 10 years.
The state said that allowing New Hampshire residents to renew their driver’s license or motorcycle operator’s license online will eliminate the need to go to a Department of Motor Vehicles office for renewals. After 10 years, drivers will be required to renew at the DMV office so that a new picture may be taken. Those applying for new licenses, commercial driver’s licenses or any other application or renewal that requires an exam or road test must still go to a DMV office. In addition, citizens who have opted to not have their pictures retained by DMV must also renew at a DMV office.
— MHT
Business groups: EPA finding will choke growth
Business groups criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases, a move that enables the agency to regulate carbon emissions from all sources.
The EPA, in response to a 2007 Supreme Court decision that ruled greenhouse gases are a pollutant subject to the Clean Air Act, found that carbon emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare. The finding initially will be used to justify regulations requiring emissions reductions for light-duty vehicles, but it opens the door for greenhouse gas limits on everything from factories to real estate development.
Business groups said Congress, not the EPA, should decide how carbon emissions are regulated.
The EPA’s finding “could result in a top-down, command-and-control regime that will choke off growth by adding new mandates to virtually every major construction and renovation project,” said Tom Donohue, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
— Kent Hoover, ACBJ Wire Service
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